1344-01-09, Norwich

To the bailifis of Farnham. Order, upon sight of these presents, to William Hawardyn, serjeant of Walter de Mauny, to be brought to with the money and all other things found with him, before the and his council, so that he be there on Friday next at latest, to do shall be determined by the council, and they shall be there also to the king and council upon the cause of that arrest, as Walter has the king to cause William to be dearrested, as he [sent] him to to seek his money and to expedite his other affairs, and William, coming to London, has been arrested with the money and divers other of Walter by those bailiffs. By C. Thomas de Gillyngham acknowledges that he owes to the prior of 40l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and in co. Kent. To R. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. Although the king presented him Master William de Exon ia], his clerk, to the church of Croston in diocese, pertaining to the king's gift by reason of the temporalities of . Parr 2. 483 the priory of St. Mary, Lancaster, in his hand, and afterwards because John, prior of Lancaster, to whom the king granted those temporalities to hold under a certain form, opposed himself and presented John de Burton, chaplain, to that church, the king forbad the bishop to admit a parson thereto while the matter was being discussed in the king's court, but the prior, being summoned by the sheriff of Lancaster to be before the king in chancery on the morrow of Epiphany last to answer for his contempt, has renounced all right in the matter for this turn and has granted that William shall be admitted to the church: the king notifies the bishop to do what pertains to his office for the admission of William.